All Quotes By Tag: Adoption
“One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.”
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“I’ve made a New Year’s resolution – to find my birth mother. It’s not as though I felt I lacked anything growing up, but I need answers. Why did my birth mother give me up? I might be thirty years old, but the rejection still hurts; wasn’t I good enough?”
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“Adoption: Every Child a Wanted Child… There are 143 million orphans in the world waiting for someone to want them. Could one of them be waiting for you?”
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“I reached down and picked up a baseball bat at my feet and I flung it as hard as it could. It circled and arced high in the air until it slammed against the side of the dining hall with a crack and fell.I sat down in the dirt. Then I lay down in the dirt.Because not only was there no trail to follow, there was no evidence he’d ever been here.There was no evidence any of them had been here.”
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“What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children — concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking all the time to bring the children to appreciate and share the parent’s own attitudes and view of life… The all-embracing principles of conduct”
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